DALIX by Red K Elders

Title:	DALIX
Date Created:	2021
Copyright:	© Red K Elders
Genre:	Unpublished Art
Mediums:	Graphite Pencil
Views:	229
Posted:	9/26/2023

Projects: My creative praxis combines deep somatic movement and trance work with ancient sorcerous technologies such as those found in the 2000 year old Greek Magical Papyri. I work with these embodied processes in and with wild nature places to facilitate visionary states which are recorded through poetic writings, and subsequently expressed in my highly detailed pencil drawings of the ancient gods and mythic beings I&rsquo m working with. The drawings are both an homage to the gods, and an offering, in which I invite them to dwell. I am giving them a new embodied form through which they may continue to live and breathe in this world. I&rsquo m fascinated by the nature of creative inspiration, that leads me to consider whether what is present in any great work of art is an indwelling animate force a spirit or god, that lives on throughout the ages. Working with this question, I&rsquo m compelled deeper into this intersection of movement, creativity and spirituality, and my life seems to become illuminated from within. Even as we all move through increasingly difficult times, we must continue to let ourselves be danced by something greater especially for all those who can not. We must continually open the seams to allow the movement of some vast majesty that we may never comprehend. Then we become a living work of art. Our lives become a ritual offering of beauty.

Location: Norfolk, England

There�s not much written about Dalix. Only a brief mention in a working called �The Skill of Receiving and Having Luck with Money� in The Black Books of Elverum published by Mary S. Rustad, and she is also mentioned in a Runic charm discovered in Bergen. She is named as �the ruler of thieves�. Of course the best way to find out more about any of these Old Gods is to build relationships of respect and propitiation with them ourselves. I made this drawing for Her as an act of devotion, to bring me closer to Her. I was encouraged to connect more deeply with other Gods and spirits and make all my drawings as real deep acts of devotion to them. To learn their stories and ways of honouring them, to connect with them in the right ways and invoke them - invite them - to inhabit the artworks.